A few links

Great posts; lots to think about.

In response to some of the conversations taking place in the comments, I found a few links and additional resources for you to consider:

• See statistics about the number of stay at home moms and dads in the country today.
• A quick clarification about the Married Women's Property Acts that were passed in different parts of the country - including Mississippi, as Sarah/Ally/Sonia mention, but most notably in New York in 1848. 
• Also, a very controversial article from a few years ago that asserts that women should stay in the workforce if they ever want to see gender equity improve. A short excerpt: 

"Following the original impulse to address everything in the lives of women, feminism turned its focus to cracking open the doors of the public power structure. This was no small task. At the beginning, there were male juries and male Ivy League schools, sex-segregated want ads, discriminatory employers, harassing colleagues. As a result of feminist efforts -- and larger economic trends -- the percentage of women, even of mothers in full- or part-time employment, rose robustly through the 1980s and early '90s.

But then the pace slowed. The census numbers for all working mothers leveled off around 1990 and have fallen modestly since 1998. In interviews, women with enough money to quit work say they are “choosing” to opt out. Their words conceal a crucial reality: the belief that women are responsible for child-rearing and homemaking was largely untouched by decades of workplace feminism. Add to this the good evidence that the upper-class workplace has become more demanding and then mix in the successful conservative cultural campaign to reinforce traditional gender roles and you've got a perfect recipe for feminism's stall."

Maybe we're back to the "light of the home" after all? 

• Finally, re: Electric Belts, etc., check out this play at the Cleveland Playhouse. (I’m looking into whether we can go as a class…) In theNext Room, or the Vibrator Play